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FOREIGN  MISSIONS  AT  THE 

134TH  general  assembly 

For  many  years  a  high  water  mark  at  the 
General  Assembly  has  been  reached  in  the 
presentation  of  the  cause  of  World  Evangel¬ 
ization,  and  this  year  proved  no  exception  to 
the  rule.  It  was  apparent  the  day  before  the 
Assembly  opened  in  Des  Moines  that  the  Com¬ 
missioners  were  intensely  interested  in  For¬ 
eign  Missions  and  exceedingly  sympathetic  to 
every  presentation  of  the  World  Work  of  the 
Church.  The  Joint  Pre-Assembly  Conference 
on  Foreign  Missions,  under  the  auspices  of 
the  Board  of  Foreign  Missions  and  the 
Woman’s  Board,  was  attended  by  the  largest 
number  of  Commissioners  and  visitors  that  this 
Conference  has  drawn  in  many  years.  The 
Reverend  Eben  B.  Cobb,  D.D.,  Chairman  of  the 
Home  Department  Committee  of  the  Board, 
presided  and  for  over  two  hours  Commission¬ 
ers,  Chairmen  and  members  of  Foreign  Mis¬ 
sions  Committees  of  the  Synods  and  Presby¬ 
teries  and  officers  and  members  of  the  two 
Boards  participated  in  a  discussion  of  plans 
for  the  cultivation  of  the  Home  Church  in 
the  interest  of  the  mission  work  now  carried 
on  by  the  Church  through  the  Board  in  fifteen 
countries  of  the  world. 

The  Foreign  Missions  exhibit,  a  part  of  the 
Presbyterian  Exposition  in  the  Auditorium, 
was  by  far  the  most  striking  and  successful 
exhibit  ever  arranged  by  the  two  Boards.  One 
end  of  the  large  room  had  been  set  aside, 
representing  booths  of  several  countries  in 
which  our  missionaries  are  working.  These 
booths  were  furnished  and  decorated  appro¬ 
priately  with  hangings  and  various  other 
material  from  the  mission  fields  and  at  stated 
times  during  the  day,  both  from  the  booths 
and  from  the  main  platform,  animated  scenes 
were  presented  in  which  missionaries  of  the 
Board  at  home  on  furlough  and  members  of 
the  churches  in  Des  Moines  participated.  The 
exhibit  was  crowded  day  after  day  by  Commis- 

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sioners  and  visitors  and  during  the  sessions  of 
the  Assembly  several  thousand  people  were 
thus  brought  into  close  touch  with  the  oflBcers 
and  missionaries  of  the  Board  and  were  given 
a  concrete  illustration  of  the  work  and  result 
of  foreign  missions. 

There  were  in  attendance  at  the  General 
Assembly  sixty-eight  Presbyterian  mission¬ 
aries  including  six  former  missionaries  and 
two  recruits.  A  number  of  these  missionaries 
were  Commissioners  from  Presbyteries  or 
delegates  from  their  Missions,  while  the  re¬ 
mainder  were  present  as  visitors.  Through  the 
kindness  of  the  Hospitality  Committee,  of 
which  the  Rev.  Frank  C.  McKean,  D.D.,  was 
the  efficient  Chairman,  entertainment  was 
provided  for  all  missionaries  in  attendance  at 
the  Assembly.  On  the  evening  of  May  23d  all 
the  missionaries  and  officers  of  the  two  For¬ 
eign  Boards  met  in  a  delightful  fellowship  at 
a  dinner  given  in  one  of  the  leading  depart¬ 
ment  stores  of  Des  Moines  where,  after 
addresses  from  Rev.  Calvin  C.  Hays,  D.  D.,  the 
newly  elected  Moderator  of  the  Assembly,  the 
Rev.  Henry  G.  Swearingen,  D.D.,  the  former 
Moderator,  the  Rev.  Thomas  R.  Good,  D.D., 
Chairman  of  the  Chosen  (Korea)  Commission, 
the  Rev.  William  H.  Foulkes,  D.D.,  General 
Secretary  of  the  New  Era  Movement,  and 
others,  several  missionaries  brought  greetings 
from  the  fields.  The  Woman’s  Board  of  For¬ 
eign  Missions  held  an  all-day  meeting  in  the 
Central  Presbyterian  Church  of  Des  Moines  on 
Monday,  May  22nd.  This  meeting  was  largely 
attended  by  Presbyterial  and  Synodical  officers, 
members  of  Des  Moines  churches  and  visitors, 
and  stimulated  great  interest  in  the  work  of 
the  Woman’s  Board. 

The  Popular  Meeting  on  Foreign  Missions 
was  attended  by  a  large  and  enthusiastic  audi¬ 
ence.  In-  the  absence  of  Dr.  George  Alex¬ 
ander,  D.D.,  the  President  of  the  Board,  the 
Rev.  Cleland  B.  McAfee,  D.D.,  of  McCormick 
Theological  Seminary,  a  member  of  the  Board 
presided.  The  missionaries  who  were  assem¬ 
bled  on  the  platform  were  introduced  by 

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Secretary  William  P.  Schell  and  were  given 
an  ovation  by  the  audience,  those  present  ris¬ 
ing  when  the  Rev.  Dr.  and  Mrs.  E.  M.  Wherry 
for  fifty-five  years  in  the  Punjab,  Miss  Edna 
Cole  for  forty-three  years  in  Siam,  the  Rev. 
J.  W.  Hawkes  for  forty-two  years  in  Persia 
and  Dr.  E.  A.  Sturge  for  forty-two  years  in 
the  service  of  the  Board,  were  presented.  Fol¬ 
lowing  the  introduction  of  the  missionaries. 
Miss  Christiana  Tsai,  a  daughter  of  Christian 
China,  told  in  a  moving  and  appealing  way 
the  story  of  her  conversion  to  Christ  in  the 
Presbyterian  School  for  Girls  in  Nanking. 
Seldom  has  an  address  been  delivered  to  the 
Assembly  which  more  clearly  and  impressively 
illustrated  the  concrete  results  of  foreign  mis¬ 
sionary  work.  Miss  Tsai  was  followed  by  the 
Rev.  W.  A.  Waddell,  D.D.,  the  President  of 
Mackenzie  College  at  Sao  Paulo,  Brazil,  who 
brought  to  the  Assembly  the  message  of  Latin 
America,  tracing  in  his  address  the  steps 
through  which  the  Protestant  Church  in  Brazil 
has  passed  since  its  foundation  and  empha¬ 
sizing  the  valuable  contribution  of  the  church 
to  present  day  life  of  Brazil.  Dr.  Waddell  was 
followed  by  Rev.  William  H.  Hudnut,  D.D.,  of 
Youngstown,  Ohio,  one  of  the  Commissioners 
at  the  Assembly,  who  six  months  ago  returned 
from  a  visit  to  our  West  Africa  Mission  as  a 
member  of  the  Board’s  deputation  to  that 
field.  Dr.  Hudnut  gave  a  powerful  address  and 
deeply  moved  the  audience  by  his  portrayal 
of  conditions  in  Africa  and  the  heroism  and 
sacrifice  of  the  missionaries.  Following  this 
address,  Mr.  B.  Carter  Millikin,  the  Educa¬ 
tional  Secretary  of  the  Board,  gave  an  unusu¬ 
ally  fine  stereopticon  lecture  on  “Our  World 
Ministry.”  This  lecture  which  gives  in  brief 
compass  a  presentation  of  the  varied  types  of 
work  carried  on  by  the  Board  in  foreign  lands, 
had  been  especially  prepared  for  the  Assem¬ 
bly  and  proved  to  be  of  great  interest  to  all 
who  heard  it. 

It  had  been  anticipated  that  the  Report  of 
the  Chosen  (Korea)  Commission  would  pro¬ 
voke  considerable  discussion  and  disagreement 

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on  the  floor  of  the  Assembly  but  the  Report 
which  was  ably  presented  by  the  Rev.  Thomas 
R.  Good,  D.D.,  Chairman  of  the  Commission, 
was  adopted  unanimously  by  the  Assembly 
after  the  Rev.  J.  Gordon  Holdcroft  of  the 
Chosen  Mission  and  the  Rev.  Reuben  A.  Tor- 
rey,  D.D.,  of  Los  Angeles,  had  appealed  to  the 
Assembly  to  approve  it.  In  presenting  the 
Report  Dr.  Good  made  the  following  statement 
which  he  said  represented  the  unanimous  judg¬ 
ment  of  his  Commission: 

“It  is  an  open  secret  that  there  has  been 
abroad  in  the  church  an  insidious  propaganda 
to  discredit  the  Board  of  Foreign  Missions  in 
the  eyes  of  the  church  at  large.  This  Com¬ 
mittee  feels  it  its  duty  to  say  that  after  extra¬ 
ordinary  opportunities  for  learning  all  the 
truth  in  the  matter — larger  opportunities  than 
any  other  group  of  men  in  the  church  could 
possibly  have  enjoyed — we  emphatically  de¬ 
clare  that  for  this  unfriendly  propaganda  there 
exists  no  reasonable  foundation  whatever. 
The  impression  that  your  Board  of  Foreign 
Missions  has  been  dictatorial  and  autocratic  is 
totally  without  foundation.  Your  Foreign 
Board  among  the  missionary  agencies  of  the 
world  is  unsurpassed  in  integrity,  efficiency 
and  devotion  of  the  highest  spiritual  character 
to  the  work  of  God.” 

This  statement  was  greeted  by  the  Assem¬ 
bly  with  hearty  and  prolonged  applause. 

On  Foreign  Missions  Day,  before  hearing  the 
representatives  of  the  Board  the  Assembly 
welcomed  enthusiastically  the  Rev.  Masahisa 
Uemura,  D.D.,  Moderator  of  the  Church  of 
Christ  in  Japan. 

The  Assembly  heard  with  great  interest  the 
Report  of  the  Standing  Committee,  which  is 
given  in  full  below,  and  listened  with  marked 
appreciation  to  the  addresses  of  Mrs.  Charles 
K.  Roys,  the  General  Secretary  of  the  Woman’s 
Board,  Secretary  William  P.  Schell  of  the 
Assembly’s  Board,  Rev.  E.  M.  Wherry,  D.D., 
of  the  Punjab,  and  Rev.  James  B.  Rodgers, 
D.D.,  of  the  Philippines. 

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REPORT  OF  THE 
STANDING  COMMITTEE  ON 
FOREIGN  MISSIONS 

The  standing  Committee  on  Foreign  Mis¬ 
sions  of  which  the  Rev.  William  R.  Taylor, 
D.D.,  of  Rochester,  N.  Y.,  was  the  efficient 
Chairman,  presented  the  following  recommen¬ 
dations  and  resolutions  which  were  adopted  by 
the  unanimous  vote  of  the  Assembly. 

The  Standing  Committee  on  Foreign  Mis¬ 
sions  begs  leave  to  submit  the  following 
recommendations  and  resolutions,  all  of  which 
have  received  the  unanimous  approval  of  its 
members : 

MINUTES  OF  THE  BOARD. 

(1)  After  a  careful  review  of  the  Minutes 
of  the  Board  of  Foreign  Missions,  your  com¬ 
mittee  recommends  their  approval  as  admir¬ 
able  in  form  and  content,  an  accurate  and 
complete  record  of  the  proceedings  and  actions 
of  the  Board.  They  evidence  the  most  pains¬ 
taking  and  efficient  discharge  of  a  great  trust. 
Through  all  of  this  extended  record  there 
runs  like  a  golden  thread  the  intelligent  and 
sympathetic  care  of  the  missionaries  and  their 
families. 

GIFTS  OF  MONEY 

(2)  That  the  Assembly  gratefully  acknowl¬ 
edge  the  many  splendid  benefactions  of  money 
and  property  received  by  the  Board  during 
the  past  year. 

MISSIONARY  FURLOUGHS 

(3)  The  Assembly  commends  the  Board’s 
action  in  requiring  that,  as  a  general  rule,  the 
first  furlough  of  all  missionaries  shall  be  used, 
for  further  preparation  under  the  direction  of 
the  mission  and  the  Board  and  suggests  that 
especially  in  the  case  of  medical  missionaries* 
a  portion  of  each  subsequent  furlough  be  spent 
in  acquiring  the  latest  practice  in  medicine 
and  surgery. 


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VISITATION  OF  FIELDS 


(4)  The  Assembly  approves  the  adoption  of 
the  policy  for  the  visitation  of  every  mission 
by  an  officer  of  the  Board  once  every  seven 
years,  that  interval  to  be  reduced  to  <five  years 
as  soon  as  practicable. 

PROMPT  REMITTANCES 

(5)  The  Assembly  urges  all  Churches  to 
make  prompt  and  regular  remittances  to  the 
Treasurer  of  the  Board  in  order  to  obviate 
the  necessity  for  the  heavy  interest  charges 
on  money  that  the  Board  is  compelled  to  bor¬ 
row  to  meet  its  obligations. 

CONFIDENCE  IN  THE  BOARD  AND 
THE  MISSIONARIES 

(6)  The  Assembly  reaffirms  its  unswerving 
confidence  in  the  Board’s  consecration  and 
competence  for  the  discharge  of  its  sacred 
trust.  It  rejoices  to  learn  that  after  most 
careful  investigation  of  certain  charges  of 
irregular  beliefs  and  teachings  amongst  our 
missionaries,  it  has  been  unable  to  discover 
any  ground  for  such  accusations.  Neither  has 
it  received  any  evidence  with  regard  to  any 
individual  calling  for  or  capable  of  transmis¬ 
sion  to  any  Presbytery.  Our  Church  has  full 
trust  in  and  deep  affection  for  our  foreign 
missionaries  and  it  is  not  in  any  mood  of 
suspicion  or  misgiving  with  regard  to  them. 
We  therefore  call  upon  our  churches  loyally 
to  support  our  Foreign  Mission  undertakings 
and  to  send  their  contributions  to  our  own 
Board. 

FINANCES 

(7)  That  the  Assembly  approve  the  report 
of  the  Treasurer  as  printed  in  the  Annual 
Report  of  the  Board,  and  heartily  commend 
the  low  percentage  of  administrative  cost. 

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ELECTION  OF  BOARD  MEMBERS 

(8)  That  the  following  members  of  the 
Board  whose  terms  of  office  expire  with  this 
meeting  of  the  Assembly,  be  re-elected  to  serve 
for  three  years: 

Rev.  Eben  B.  Cobb,  D.D. 

Rev.  Charles  C.  Albertson,  D.D. 

Rev.  Robert  Gardner  McGregor,  D.D. 

Rev.  Charles  Grenville  Sewall 

William  E.  Stiger,  Esq. 

Mr.  Alfred  E.  Marling 

Mr.  Edwin  M.  Bulkley 

Mr.  Henry  J.  Cochran 

Also  that  the  election  of  Mr.  Ralph  W. 
Harbison  as  a  member  of  the  Board,  in  place 
of  Mr.  Scott  Foster,  deceased,  be  approved. 

RECENT  IMPORTANT  ACTIONS  OF 
THE  BOARD 

(9)  That  the  Assembly  has  learned  with 
hearty  satisfaction  of  the  completion  of  the 
fund  in  memory  of  Dr.  A.  W.  Halsey;  the 
establishment  of  the  Board’s  new  Medical 
Department  for  conserving  the  health  of  the 
missionary  force,  and  for  promoting  the  work 
of  medical  missions  (see  Report,  pp.  40-41) ; 
the  new  regulation  equalizing  the  salaries  of 
single  men  and  single  women  missionaries  and 
making  more  liberal  provision  for  our  mis¬ 
sionaries  while  sick  and  while  traveling  on 
furlough,  and  for  the  maintenance  of  their 
children  (Report,  pp.  20-21) ;  and  especially  the 
provision  for  the  continuation  of  the  salaries 
of  the  missionaries  of  the  Board  who  have 
reached  the  age  of  70  years  or  have  given 
forty  years  of  service  on  the  field,  by  this 
provision  affording  inexpressible  relief  and 
comfort  to  these  faithful  servants  of  Christ 
and  His  Church. 

COMMENDATION  OF  THE  WOMAN'S 
BOARD 

(10)  That  the  Assembly  is  pleased  to  hear 
of  the  good  results  following  the  consolida- 

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tion  of  the  six  former  Women’s  Boards  into 
the  Woman’s  Board  of  Foreign  Missions  and 
the  closer  co-operation  with  the  Assembly’s 
Board  thus  secured,  and  the  Assembly  con¬ 
gratulates  the  Woman’s  Board  of  Foreign  Mis¬ 
sions  upon  the  signal  achievements  of  its  first 
year,  especially  upon  the  large  increase  of 
$110, 000  iu  its  receipts  over  those  of  the  pre¬ 
ceding  year. 

OUIiTIVATION  OF  THE  HOME 
CHURCH 

(11)  The  Assembly  commends  the  Home 
Department  of  the  Board  for  its  wise,  ener¬ 
getic  and  highly  successful  work  in  promot¬ 
ing  missionary  interest,  intelligence,  and  en- 
thueiasm  throughout  the  Church  in  the  home¬ 
land. 

MISSIONARY  AND  EDUCATION 

(12)  That  the  Educational  Department  of 
the  Board  be  commended  for  the  effective  pro¬ 
motion  of  the  study  of  Foreign  Missions  in 
the  churches,  the  Sunday  schools,  and  the 
Women’s  Organizations;  and  especially  for 
the  development  of  the  lantern  slide  service 
of  the  Board. 

(13)  That  the  Assembly  approve  the  Board’s 
plans  for  the  study  of  India  this  year,  and  call 
upon  each  church  and  Sunday  school  to  pro¬ 
vide  in  its  program  ample  opportunity  for 
this  study. 

CHRISTMAS  AND  EASTER 
OFFERINGS 

(14)  That  the  Assembly  again  appoint  the 
Sunday  nearest  Christmas  and  Easter  for 
special  offerings  from  the  Sunday  schools  for 
work  under  the  care  of  the  Board  of  Foreign 
Missions,  and  urge  each  Sunday  school  to 
use  the  excellent  programs  provided  by  the 
Educational  Department  of  the  Board  and  to 
take  part  in  the  special  offerings  on  each  of 
these  days. 


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SUPPORT  OF  THE  WORK 


(15)  That  the  Assembly  reiterate  its  hearty 
approval  of  the  plan  whereby  many  churches, 
Sunday  schools.  Women’s  Missionary  So¬ 
cieties,  other  organizations,  and  individuals 
now  support  particular  missionaries  or  some 
particular  mission  station,  and  are  thereby 
brought  into  closer  and  more  vital  touch  with 
the  work.  The  Assembly  recommends  this 
plan  of  foreign  missionary  giving  to  all  our 
churches  and  other  donors. 

THE  NEAR  EAST 

(16)  The  Assembly  notes  with  great  inter¬ 
est  the  work  which  the  Board  has  done  since 
the  signing  of  the  Armistice  in  the  rehabilita¬ 
tion  of  its  mission  work  in  Syria,  including 
special  contributions  for  enlargement  of  the 
work  and  the  erection  of  new  buildings,  and 
notes  also  that  the  Board  will  probably  be 
called  upon  to  do  a  similar  work  of  rebuilding 
for  Persia,  as  a  result  of  the  investigations 
made  by  the  Board’s  deputation  who  are  just 
returning  from  that  ifield.  The  Assembly, 
therefore,  urges  the  churches  to  study  this 
Near  Eastern  field  with  the  greatest  care  and 
to  strengthen  it  both  by  their  prayers  and 
their  gifts. 

(17)  The  Assembly  views  with  anxiety  the 
reports  that,  under  the  new  treaty  to  be  nego¬ 
tiated  between  the  allied  countries  and  Tur¬ 
key,  power  may  be  granted  to  Turkey  which 
will  seriously  threaten  the  continuance  of 
Mission  Work  in  the  Near  East,  and  expresses 
its  gratification  at  the  expressed  determina¬ 
tion  of  our  Government  to  guard  American 
interests  in  this  Near  Eastern  country,  and 
urges  upon  the  United  States  government 
utmost  vigilance  lest  by  any  chance  the  work 
which  has  existed  for  more  than  a  century  be 
destroyed,  and  the  Near  East  be  deprived  of 
those  Christian  influences  through  which  alone 
its  problems  can  be  solved. 

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MORPHINE  AND  OPIUM 


(18)  The  Assembly  notes  with  satisfaction 
that  the  Jones-Miller  Bill  restricting  the  ex¬ 
port  of  morphine  and  opium  has  been  passed 
by  the  national  House  of  Representatives  and 
appeals  to  the  Senate  to  take  similar  action 
at  an  early  date.  It  is  a  distress  to  all  Chris¬ 
tians  and  an  obstacle  to  our  mission  work 
that  the  traffic  in  morphine  seems  to  be  on 
the  increase;  that  by  subtle  and  sinuous  ways 
this  drug  is  being  sold,  not  only  in  America, 
but  in  China,  contrary  to  the  law.  The  Assem¬ 
bly  is  gratified  to  learn  that  Great  Britain 
is  taking  action  to  arrest  this  trade,  and  earn¬ 
estly  hopes  that  our  own  Government  will 
promptly  pass  and  enforce  the  Jones-Miller 
Bill,  whose  object  is  to  break  up  this  nefarious 
traffic. 

RECRUITS 

(19)  The  Assembly  notes  with  profound  in¬ 
terest  the  large  number  of  students  in  the 
colleges  and  other  institutions  who  have  sig¬ 
nified  their  desire  to  go  to  the  foreign  field, 
and  that  notwithstanding  the  fact  that  the 
Board  has  raised  the  standard  of  qualifica¬ 
tions,  it  has  been  able  to  send  the  average 
number  sent  out  in  the  past  ten  years.  The 
Assembly  calls  the  attention  of  the  churches 
to  the  demand  upon  the  Board  for  highly  quali¬ 
fied  men  and  women,  and  urges  pastors,  edu¬ 
cational  leaders,  and  parents  to  aid  the  Board, 
not  only  in  discovering  the  choice  young  men 
and  women  of  the  Church,  but  also  in  pre¬ 
senting  the  needs  of  the  foreign  field  and  the 
call  of  God  to  missionary  service. 

ASSAM  MISSION 

(20) .  The  General  Assembly  has  learned 
with  interest  of  the  adjustment  contemplated 
between  the  Board  of  Foreign  Missions  and 
the  Board  of  the  Welsh  Calvinistic  Method¬ 
ists’  Foreign  Missions  in  regard  to  the  Assam 
Mission  formerly  under  the  Welsh  Calvinistic 

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Methodist  Church  in  the  U.  S.  A.  The  Assem¬ 
bly  approves  the  Board’s  action  in  offering  to 
turn  over  the  properties  to  the  Welsh  Church 
without  compensation,  with  the  understanding 
that  they  are  to  conduct  the  work  in  the  fu¬ 
ture,  and  that  all  responsibilities  for  repairs 
to  buildings  and  for  funds  for  running  ex¬ 
penses  are  to  be  assumed  by  them.  The 
Assembly  in  approving  this  action  authorizes 
the  transfer  to  be  consummated  as  soon  as  the 
Board  receives  a  definite  acceptance  of  the 
offer  from  the  General  Assembly  of  the  Welsh 
Calvinistic  Methodist  Church  which  meets  in 
Cardiff,  Wales,  June  13-15,  1922. 

WORK  AMONG  ORIENTALS  IN  THE 
UNITED  STATES 

(21)  That  the  Board  be  authorized  to  trans¬ 
fer  to  the  Board  of  Home  Missions  and  the 
Woman’s  Board  of  Home  Missions  the  work 
among  Orientals  in  the  United  States  now 
under  the  direction  of  the  Board  of  Foreign 
Missions  and  the  Woman’s  Board  of  Foreign 
Missions — this  transfer  to  be  made  on  the  fol¬ 
lowing  terms,  already  mutually  agreed  upon 
by  the  Boards  concerned: 

(a)  That  the  administration  of  the 
entire  work  be  turned  over  to  these  two 
Boards  June  1,  1922. 

(b)  In  accepting  the  action  of  the 
Woman’s  Board  of  Home  Missions  the 
Foreign  Boards  will  contribute  $18,000  for 
the  fiscal  year  1922-23  towards  the  work 
among  the  Orientals  on  the  Pacific  Coast, 
which  has  been  conducted  by  the  Woman’s 
Board  of  Foreign  Missions;  that  for  the 
year  beginning  April  1,  1923,  they  will  con¬ 
tribute  $12,000  toward  this  work,  and  for 
the  year  beginning  April  1,  1924,  $6,000, 
and  thereafter  their  financial  responsi¬ 
bility  will  cease. 

(c)  (1)  That  the  Assembly’s  Board  of 
Home  Missions  will  accept  the  adminis¬ 
tration  of  the  work  suggested  by  the  For- 

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eign  Board  with  the  understanding  that 
the  Foreign  Board  carry  the  entire  budget 
for  the  year  beginning  April  1,  1922. 

(2)  That  for  the  year  beginning  April 
1,  1923,  the  Home  Board  will  assume  one- 
third  of  the  budget;  for  the  year  begin¬ 
ning  April  1,  1924,  two-thirds  of  the  bud¬ 
get;  and  thereafter  all  of  it. 

In  transferring  this  work  the  Foreign  Board 
also  agrees  to  transfer  its  property  to  the  two 
Home  Boards  without  charge,  the  legal  papers 
in  regard  to  this  transfer  to  be  prepared  by 
the  attorney  of  the  Board  of  Foreign  Missions. 

INSTALLATION  OF  FOREIGN 
PASTORS 

(22)  That  no  action  be  taken  on  the  over¬ 
tures  relating  to  the  installation  of  ordained 
missionaries  as  pastors  abroad,  of  home 
churches  assuming  their  financial  support,  such 
a  double  relation  as  is  contemplated  between 
the  missionaries  concerned  and  the  churches 
and  Presbyteries  with  which  they  would  be 
connected  being  impracticable. 

ANNUITY  GIFTS 

(23)  That  the  Assembly  heartily  commends 
the  plan  of  the  Board  for  Annuity  Gifts  on 
which  the  Board  pays  interest  until  the  death 
of  the  donor,  or  of  the  annuitant,  when  the 
principal  becomes  available  for  the  foreign 
mission  cause;  and  the  Assembly  urges  all 
friends  of  the  cause  to  remember  the  Board 
in  their  wills. 

IN  MEMORIAM 

(24)  That  the  Assembly  hereby  records  with 
sorrow,  and  in  grateful  remembrance  of  their 
services,  the  death,  during  the  year,  of  the 
following  missionaries : 

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NAME  Term  of  Service 

Rev.  Robert  H.  Nassau,  D.D., 

♦Africa  . 1861-1906 

Mrs.  Oscar  J.  Hardin,  *Syria . 1873-1919 

Miss  Emilie  Thomson,  Syria . 1876-1922 

Rev.  Robert  M.  Mateer,  D.D.,  China.  .1881-1921 

Rev.  Henry  M.  Landis,  Japan . 1888-1921 

Mrs.  Horace  G.  Underwood,  Chosen.  .1888-1921 

Miss  Jennie  Wheeler,  Mexico . 1888-1922 

Rev.  J.  H.  Freeman,  Siam . 1894-1922 

Rev.  James  B.  Cochran,  *China . 1899-1920 

Mrs.  F.  M.  iStead,  Fersia . 1900-1922 

Rev.  Walter  W.  Hicks,  China . 1902-1921 

Mrs.  Hugh  C.  Ramsay,  China . 1913-1921 

Mrs.  Walter  W.  Wood,  Brazil . 1916-1921 

Rev.  Lorin  H.  King,  Mexico . 1917-1922 

Rev.  E.  C.  Cowden,  Africa . 1920-1922 

*  Had  resigned  from  Missionary  service. 


Also  the  death  of  Mr.  Scott  Foster,  member 
of  the  Board  1898-1922. 

THE  CHURCH  AND  ITS  DIVINE 
ENTERPRISE 

(25)  That,  with  ever-deepening  conviction 
that  the  Gospel  of  Christ  is  the  wisdom  of 
God  and  the  power  of  God  unto  salvation,  not 
only  of  the  individual  soul  but  of  human  so¬ 
ciety  in  all  its  groupings,  from  the  family  to 
nations  and  international  alliances;  and  with 
our  established  confidence  in  the  ability  of 
our  Board  of  Foreign  Missions  still  further 
strengthened  by  the  remarkable  results 
achieved  during  the  past  year,  both  at  home 
and  abroad,  in  the  face  of  unusual  diflaculties, 
the  Assembly  commends  anew  to  the  entire 
Church  this  Board  and  its  divine  enterprise; 
and  believing  that  the  supreme  philanthropy 
is  the  giving  of  the  Gospel  to  men,  the  As¬ 
sembly  urges  all  members  of  our  Church  pos¬ 
sessed  of  wealth  to  observe  a  juster  propor¬ 
tion  between  their  gifts  and  bequests  for 

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Christian  missions  and  those  they  make  with 
such  splendid  generosity  to  universities,  li¬ 
braries,  hospitals,  and  other  educational  and 
philanthropic  institutions. 


The  Board  of  Foreign  Missions  and  the 
Woman’s  Board  as  a  result  of  this  whole 
hearted  endorsement  of  the  Assembly,  have 
entered  the  new  fiscal  year  with  the  highest 
expectations  and  with  the  confident  belief  that 
the  Church  which  has  so  many  years  supported 
this  World  Work  to  whicli  it  set  its  hand 
eighty-ifive  years  ago,  will  continue  to  give  to 
that  cause  the  same  loyal  support  in  these 
days  of  worldwide  opportunity  and  encourage¬ 
ment. 


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